| Thus the word types in Mising
are as follows : |
| a) Simple word consists
of a single fre form or a stem. |
| b) Derived word consists
of a stem and one or more affixes. |
| c) Compound
word consists of two simple stems with or without affixes. |
| Thus the word classes in
Mising which have been established on the basis of formal and functional
criteria are as follows:- |
| i) Noun (including
noun substitutes) |
| ii) Adjective (including
numerals and classifiers) |
| iii) Verb |
| iv) Adverb |
| v) Function words
(particles) |
| Of thse, only function words,
though free forms, do not enter into higher constructions. |
| Nouns and noun substitutes,
or pronouns, take number, gender and case suffixes and hence they
are separated from other form classes. A typical formula for a noun
construction in Mising would be as follows. |
| n = + n nc: ns ±
num:nm ± g:gm ±
c:cm |
| i.e., noun consists of a
nominal free from which may or may not take overt number, gender and
case morpheme(s). |
| As a formal category, verbs
in Mising have a more complex morphological system and are separated
from other form classes as they take tense, mood and aspect suffixes.
A typical formula will be as follows : |
| iv / vt = +v nc:iv/vt ±
tense aspect
mood |
| The nuclear position of
the verb is occupied by an intransitive or transitive verb stem with
or without overt tense, aspect and mood markers. Adjectives fill the
functional slot of possession, partitiveness, etc. An adjective in
Mising has the following type of morphological construction. |
| adj = + adj nc: adj s ±
comp : {-ya/ -yapag} |
| An adjective consists of
an adjective nucleus filled by an adjective stem and an optional comparison
slot filled by /-ya/ or /-yapag/- |
| Adverbs fill the slot of
adverbials difining location, time, etc. Apart from these, there are
a few forms which fill functional slots at the syntactic level and
may be termed as function words. |
|
1. Noun
|
| 1.0 Stems, which
are inflected for number, gender and case are nouns. Missing nouns
are not differentiated for person. |
| Animate nouns can take
number and gender markers as well as postpositions. Human nouns and
animate non-human nouns have different ways of showing gender distinction.
|
| They fall into two classes
- (a) simple and (b) derived. |
| 1.0.1 Simple nouns
comprise forms for human, animate non-human and inanimate entities.
|
| Examples : |
| Human Nouns |
|
(i)
|
k
|
boy
|
|
|
pa nė
|
maid
|
|
|
tśmb
|
window
|
|
(ii)
|
ab
|
father
|
|
|
bļr
|
brother
|
|
|
| Animate non-human nouns
|
|
